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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #60 on: December 31, 2024, 04:20:40 am »
Hello

Here I have Qplay. it does not run on ArcaOS, it loads and quit instantly and does not produce a popup error log.

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Works fine here, did you read the readme? Try something like
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qplay.exe E:\MMOS2\SOUNDS\APPLAUSE.WAV" Adjust the drive letter as needed.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #61 on: December 31, 2024, 10:26:47 pm »
Thanks Dave. I don't know why I thought it was a PM app.  ;D

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #62 on: January 26, 2025, 02:28:05 pm »
Hello

I found this one:

eCSExpand. It is supposed to be a HTML Processor. I guess it transform HTML to another thing, but it hangs for me even with a basic HTML file.
It did not include any information and seems to have the VX-REXX source code.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #63 on: January 27, 2025, 03:24:27 am »
Seems to only work with HomePage Publisher, http://homepagepublisher.com/index.php .
You could register, create a web page and test.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #64 on: January 27, 2025, 10:03:41 pm »
Thanks Dave
Seems to only work with HomePage Publisher, http://homepagepublisher.com/index.php .
You could register, create a web page and test.

How do you find the HomePagePublisher reference? on the source code?
Should I add on the documentation that it should only work with  homepagepublisher.com? Just to help the hypothetical user that tries this software. There was no documentation where I found this file.

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« Reply #65 on: January 28, 2025, 12:36:23 am »
Thanks Dave
Seems to only work with HomePage Publisher, http://homepagepublisher.com/index.php .
You could register, create a web page and test.

How do you find the HomePagePublisher reference? on the source code?
Should I add on the documentation that it should only work with  homepagepublisher.com? Just to help the hypothetical user that tries this software. There was no documentation where I found this file.

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Yes, in ecsexpand.vrx about line 359,
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   do while lines(InputFile)

      ibuf = linein(InputFile)

      if (BodyFile<>"") then do

         if (pos("<!-- Generated by HomePage Publisher - ",ibuf)>0 |,

             pos("<!-- Most recent revision:",ibuf)>0 |,

             strip(ibuf) = "</Body>" |,

             Strip(ibuf) = "</Html>") then iterate

      end

      /* <!insert prefix_template.html> */

Not really sure what it does after this. As I said, you could register and create a page to test

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #66 on: January 30, 2025, 12:44:40 pm »
Hello

I found this VSE/ESA Workstation Interface:
- http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/os2_coding/vse-esa.zip
I'm guessing it is a utility to send commands to a mainframe, right?
It comes with a .VRP and some .VRX files, are those the source code of it for VX-REXX ?

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To answer your first question.

Yes it is an interface (GUI) to send/retreive command/results from a mainframe VSE system.
VSE is nearly a mainframe DOS system, successor of DOS/VSE - ESA was replaced by Z since a long time.
IBM mainframe operating systems: z/VSE, z/VM (also named hypervisor), z/OS, z/Linux (or more commonly Linux on zseries), z/TPF

Somme rexx functions allowing automated processes on a host could be done throught rexx ehllapi and pcomm (personnal communication) too
etc...
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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #67 on: May 20, 2025, 08:45:22 pm »
Hi Again

I'm trying this SYSINFO from the 1990, made by Joe Fromm. (not to confuse with several apps called SysInfo).
When I run it it freeze my WPS. Is it working the same for you?

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« Reply #68 on: May 21, 2025, 01:04:26 am »
Generally, it locks my computer completely. If I double click it fairly quickly after it starts so it has a frame, it doesn't seem to lock it up though I never let it run for very long as I didn't want to power cycle my computer again :)
The CPU meter is broken and likely gets confused by our fast CPU's and the multi-cores.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #69 on: May 21, 2025, 03:45:49 pm »
Thanks Dave for giving it a try.

I think it will be good to keep this (Joe Fromm's SYSINFO) because it comes with the source code. Maybe on OS/2 2.0 it will work fine. I will try it on the weekend on a VM.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #70 on: June 13, 2025, 04:39:13 pm »
Hello

Today I found at eCSoft/2 a post about "OS/2 Doctor" (2025-04-06).

- https://ru.os2.guru/projects/doctor/
- https://en.os2.guru/projects/doctor/
- https://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/doctor/downloads/os2doctor-20250406.zip

I'm trying it but I don't know exactly what it does. Seems it creates a list on a CVS file on C:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR so you can later compare the with a different list if you have a problem in your system.

What do you think?

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #71 on: June 13, 2025, 05:08:00 pm »
Hello

Just for the sake of trying to understand this tool I did:

- run "dr-agent.exe" and click once the "Collect info" button
- It runs for some minutes and created the file: C:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR\20250613-085625\crcdata.csv
- Run "os2doctor c:" to run the snapshot compare process (I guess). It run a batch process that ended in:
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[c:\OS2]
c:\Home
c:\IBMCOM
c:\MPTNxxx
DosQueryFSInfo error: return code = 15
Success.

No idea what else to do. I don't know if there is a report that can show me the changes on the files to find the possible problem.


I found it generated an HTML report on the same directory where os2doctor.exe is running.  I guess now I know how it works. The report requires more work, but it is a good first try.

Eugene, if you need an English readme here it is something you can improve:

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OS/2 Doctor
Version: 2025-04-06
Homepage: http://os2.guru/os2doctor
Author: eCo Software

=== Description ===

OS/2 Doctor is a collection of utilities aimed to test the integrity of OS/2. OS/2 Doctor consists in two components, the agent (dr-agent.exe) and the main utility (os2doctor.exe).

The idea is to take first an snapshot on your working system and later you can compare it with your future system with an HTML report this tool provides. This report will help troubleshoot any problems.

=== How to use: ===

1) Taking the Capsule (Snapshot):
On an OS/2 working system run "dr-agent.exe" and click once the "Collect info" button that will show up on the screen.

A procedure starts that will scan your hard drive files and collect the information on the C:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR directory.

For example: x:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR\20250613-085625\crcdata.csv

2) Analyzing Changes
If an problem occurs on your OS/2 system you can analyze the changes from the latest capsule (snapshot) with the following command.
  os2doctor.exe x:
Where x: is the drive to analyze.

It will start to compare the capsule (snapshot) with the current drive:

  â–“â–“â–“OS/2 Doctor, collect analysis about system / version: Q0405
 
   c:
   Found: 1 capsules (= savings, sessions)
   Going to compare current state with the latest one..
   Press any key to Start. Press Ctrl-Break to Exit

Press any key to start the scanning. You will see on the command line the scanning procedure.

Once the procedure is completed, a new directory will be created with the HTML report of the changes. For example:
    x:\....\Doctor-report-20250613-095322
Open "report.html" with the browser to see the report of changes in your system.

=== Restrictions ===

1) You can manually edit the list of capsules (snapshot) located in:
   x:\Home\OS2DOCTOR\os2doctor.list
Names should be longer than 8 characters.

=== License ===
Shareware. License cost: 500 rubles.


And here it what I posted on the OS2World wiki about it:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=OS/2_Doctor

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